Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
No, criterion dungeons were supposed to be the FFXIV version of Mythic+ from WoW, which was heavily requested and even brought up to Yoshi-P in interviews.
But they weren't. They couldn't be further from Mythic+.

Mythic+ in Legion I could just grab a few guild or friends and run some keys that were at a suitable level for our skill. It was challenging, but still a fun activity where you could hop in and get a few runs down. They were also actual dungeons, lots of mobs to aoe, large interesting environments and so on.

Criterion is smaller scale Savage boss progression. Nothing more. You can go in and wipe for 4 hours on the first boss. Not exactly a bad thing in itself, but we already have Savage bosses. I personally have a static and P8 and Ultimate to run so I'm not interested right now and more casual players aren't into Savage prog either. Criterion caters to a small niche while anyone could jump into Mythic+ because it scaled in difficulty.

They missed the mark entirely.